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Re:ORNL’s Frontier breaks the exaflop ceiling by muxr on Monday May 30, 2022 @07:56AM (#31558067)
There is also an article about how they did submit a score from one of these Chinese "exaflop" systems, for a different benchmark and it turns out it can only achieve the claimed performance at half precision:

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/chinese-exascale-supercomp...

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Re:ORNL’s Frontier breaks the exaflop ceiling by throwaway4good on Monday May 30, 2022 @08:46AM (#31558406)
Which would still make it faster than previous number one machine, no?
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Re:ORNL’s Frontier breaks the exaflop ceiling by freemint on Monday May 30, 2022 @10:31AM (#31559376)
Maybe not. Fugaku also had super exa scale performance at reduced precision
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